Johannesburg branch April 2010, SAIMC The Johannesburg Branch of the SAIMC held its AGM on 10 March. The 2010 committee was elected – the majority of the 2009 stalwarts committed to devoting another year to furthering the aims of the industry, ...
Durban branch March 2010, SAIMC The Durban branch of the SAIMC held its AGM at the Durban Country Club on Wednesday 3 February. It was a well attended function and after the formalities were over members enjoyed an appetising dinner, ...
From the president's desk February 2010, SAIMC From 18 to 20 December, Vivian MacFadyen and I made a flying visit to our Zambian branches. The purpose was to encourage our branches to maintain the drive to grow the Society within the Zambian region, ...
Johannesburg branch February 2010, SAIMC, WEINERT Special Cables 2009 Round-upTechnology evenings
Technology evenings kicked off in March with Nirmal Naratam of PAS describing the best way to configure alarms so as to eliminate alarm ‘flooding’, and confusing the ...
Durban branch February 2010, SAIMC The Richards Bay SAIMC technology evening will be held on 24 February. Bruce Barratt and Andre Tesselaar from Dimension Data will be discussing the design commissioning and installation of the Ethernet ...
From the president's desk January 2010, SAIMC Firstly, I would like to wish you all a happy and prosperous New Year – may 2010 be your best year yet.
From an SAIMC perspective the New Year brings with it a new set of challenges. So, if you have ...
Secunda branch January 2010, SAIMC The Secunda branch activities for 2009 ended with a very well organised year-end function which, from feedback received, was enjoyed by everyone who attended.
For our last site visit of 2009, NIC Instruments ...
Durban branch January 2010, SAIMC The November technology evening for the Durban branch of the SAIMC was a most interesting one on process information system Historians. These have evolved significantly from the early days when their ...
From the president's desk December 2009, SAIMC We often hear of the November/December period being referred to as the ‘Silly Season’.
Well, with all the year-end functions and the rush to complete everything in time, I have to agree with this description. ...
Durban branch December 2009, SAIMC Chairman’s message
2009 has been another very successful year for the SAIMC Durban branch. We have managed to grow our membership even in this recessionary environment, giving credence to those famous ...
Secunda branch December 2009, SAIMC It is unbelievable that a year can pass so fast. 2009 has been a year filled with challenges in many fields and I am sure everyone will agree that the economic challenge was the greatest of all. It took ...
From the president's desk November 2009, SAIMC The Annual Banquet to be held on 5 November is fully sold out with 220 seats. This year’s sponsoring companies in alphabetical order were: * Beckhoff
* Burkert Contromatic
* EE Publishers
* Endress+Hauser
* ...
Durban branch November 2009, SAIMC Forthcoming attractions:Tuesday 27 October – Durban SAIMC Technology Evening: Johan Hamman, managing director of DesSoft Design Software will be discussing the necessity of plant documentation (company ...
Zambia - Mufulira sub-branch November 2009, SAIMC Gabriel Kapumpe, chairman of the SAIMC Mufulira sub-branch in Zambia, reports:
A technical study group from Mufulira visited the Indeni petroleum refinery in Ndola – Zambia’s largest oil refinery – ...
Secunda branch November 2009, SAIMC The September Technology Evening was sponsored by WIKA, and Ralf Hesse gave us a presentation on thermowells. Many of us never realised the amount of work that goes into the design and manufacturing of ...
From the president's desk October 2009, SAIMC It gives me great pleasure to announce the appointment of our vice president, Peter Zietsman. Peter was one of the founder members of the Secunda branch 15 years ago and has actively served as branch ...
Secunda branch October 2009, SAIMC The August technology evening was sponsored by Extech Safety Systems. Gary Friend presented on a very interesting topic: ‘Reliable Foundation Fieldbus Systems’. We once again had a good attendance from ...
Cape Town branch October 2009, SAIMC For the Cape Town branch of the SAIMC 2009 began with a history lesson taking us back to the basics of engineering approaches. This was thanks to Hendrik Keyzer of Real-Time Solutions who delivered a ...
Durban branch October 2009, SAIMC At the Durban Technology Evening on 2 September, Ian Loudon of Omniflex gave an interesting presentation on ‘Bulk storage and tank management’ which included best practice integration of remote monitoring ...
From the president's desk September 2009, SAIMC Our innovations committee headed by Johan Maartens is constantly tabling new ideas and proposals to help us work more efficiently, thus adding benefits to both our members and patrons. The 2009 Council ...
